Although well established by now, affiliate marketing is new enough that marketers are still looking for best practices. Consultant Shawn Collins annually surveys marketers who use affiliates--sites that drive traffic to e-retailers` or other marketers` sites. His AffStat 2005 report is just out and the range of answers reveals the wide variety of approaches that marketers take. Among the interesting data is that 75% of marketers manage their affiliate programs in-house, 30% have reduced the size of their affiliate networks in the past year and 28% allow affiliates to bid on the marketer`s own brand name in search engines. Here are a few other findings from the 30-question study:
Finding best practices in affiliate marketing
AFFStat reports how marketers are managing their affiliates
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